Wizard Worm is an idea I've had since last summer about some kids who get terrorized by a power hungry worm with magical powers.

[i'll probably change this image later b/c it's kinda gross??]

Story
While playing in the park one day, you and your friends discover a small worm wearing a pointy hat claiming that it's a wizard, able to do anything humans can do and more. No one is impressed with this worm, and you all are about to ignore it, until all of your parents are suddenly held captive in giant floating cages that appeared out of nowhere. Will you appease the worm? Destroy it? Save your friends or your family? Or abandon all of them to save yourself?

Wizard Worm can do anything and more. What will you do?

DAY 1:

I've been bouncing around ideas since last week but I think I'm going to try and see if I can make this idea work! I feel like Twine would be a good engine to go about making it in, so it can be similar to a choose your own adventure game. Plus I feel as though this story would work well in a more prose-like format.

Gameplay would be centered around how you'd want to deal with Wizard Worm. I was outlining lots of key events that could happen through the course of the game. I came up with a lot of bad endings though. I just finished watching some playthroughs of zero escape games so that might be why I came up with so many endings and how they would unlock other endings on multiple playthroughs. BUT! I only have so much time and I still need to figure my way around Twine.

The default styles aren't really what I'm going for, so it looks like I'll have to figure out some CSS. After playing some of Michael Lutz's Twine games, I definitely want to make the story readable and visually interesting to follow! Of course, I'll probably end up making most of my own assets, as it looks like it'll only be still images and some music or background noise. Oh and writing too! Tomorrow I'll set some deadlines down.

vn about a magic worm... i'm in.. gl pal!!!

DAY 4

Been thinkin a lot and I think I nailed down a story structure that I can finish within the jam time! It's definitely becoming less of a horrific summertime memory like i thought it was going to turn out and more about a fun romp with a magic worm (which is still a little horrific in some ways).

Have some story notes and doodles!

ahh yess i really love renpy's tutorial too! such a nice way to ease you into the engine. these sketches are looking really cool whoa i'm excited to see how they end up in game!

DAY 6

been tightening up the story structure and started working on the assets! here are sketch mock ups of your friends and an updated colored sprite of wizard worm, though i kinda want to leave everything else in greyscale, since wizard worm is the only one who can brighten up these kids's sad realities!

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omg I'm so excited to play this ♫ plz wizard worm bring a sparkle to my eye ♫

ohhh the rest of your sprites are looking lovely! nice work!